I found this great article via Hack-a-day, which show’s how you can make your own LED solar tracker… this is useful for those who want to optimize their solar panels sun collecting position… if you don’t feel like assembling your own, you can always purchase ready built ones for $35.
Of course this is just the tracker and you will still need the actuator enabled tripod to mount the solar panel on which will make sun chasing possible…
If you have time, check out also this other do it yourself tutorial on how to make a solar cell.
Category: Solar, Do it Yourself, How to
October 26th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Point your own collector at the sun for peanuts…
Fascinated to read about the $35 sun tracker. I have just been blogging about a recently proposed suntracking dish carrying a Stirling engine and generating electricity more efficiently than the best photovoltaics.
My blog has a very clear and understa…